Holiday Guide 2013 - November! Consider The Fall Garden


by Kimberly Childers • Comments or Ideas? kimberlychilders@att.net


Santa Rosa, CA. ~ The crisp days of late fall have been perfect, the damp evenings delightful for bundling up and venturing outside to gaze at the stars, the planets, the cosmos. It's


actually


unimaginable that in a few short months the


will


garden begin


unfolding like little pieces of origami paper art. Tiny cro- cus


flowers will be push-


ing up, which I hope you have scattered and planted (their bulbs) in secrete plac- es in your garden.


There is


nothing quite like noticing their Lilliputian blooms on a crisp day, early in the morn- ing. It awakens the winter heart. California natives, like Milk Maids, exquisite


of red freesias in the ‘old lawn’, scattering dwarf yel- low poppy seeds throughout as well. Think about plant- ing other interesting bulbs like Ranunculus, Sparaxis,


Ixia, flow-


ering bulbs, with their deli- cate white blooms begin pop- ping up at the end of winter. Glistening white snowdrops will be coming up too. Early November is the time to get things completed in the gar- dens and I'm hoping you have been busy getting seeds, dis- covering new seed companies


with dark centered blooms in yellow, red, orange and crème. Don’t forget Dutch iris and most interesting Fritilaria. I’m dividing my Alpine strawber- ries now, potting them up to grow larger and in a month I will create borders in the potager.


pastry delight! if you like.


divide and share chives, lemon thyme, lime thyme or one of the many other variet-


appetite for


and planting those cover crops as the rains begin. I’m planting long


ies of thyme, Greek oregano, aromatic


Agastache, swaths called Hummingbird Mint,


white or purple garlic


chives


and other over- grown peren- nials now. Someone over your fence might have just the spot for them.


Cut flower


gardens have been stirring in my quieted mind as of late. Flowers


sooth


the gardening soul and ignite the


color and fra-


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grance. This is a wonderful time to begin a definitive list of flowers to grow for cut- ting; flowers that stand tall in a vase, last several days when cut, and are fragrant or visu- ally stimulating or both. When the damp, velvety curtain of earliest spring is raised, I'm anticipating a standing ovation for your potential array of lovely flow- ers. Little green tips and leaves emerging from moist earth will grow into a pro- fusion of color and design, texture and fragrance wait- ing only to fill the vases you capture them for.It’s


time


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to clean up, compost dead or fading plants and remove slug and snail habitats. Show no mercy. Replenish nutri- ents and compost in beds that will be dormant in winter or replant them now with kale, leeks, onions, cabbage, broc- coli, Brussels sprouts, leeks and cauliflower to name a few. Pot up some of the many varieties and colors of gor- geous primroses, preferring the damp, short days this time of year. They are perfect for holiday décor beyond the tra- ditional. Fill pots with violas and colorful pansies offering edible flowers to toss in sal- ads and surprise your dinner guests! It’s getting cold out- side. The garden begs to rest. Finish your work there. Get inspired, take it all in


and savor the waning days of fall. There is something about the garden, hidden treasures that lie beneath the soil’s sur- face, some deep, quenching, unexplainable meaning. For some of us, I do believe it’s pure magic!


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